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Handel Variations & 4 Ballads
Brahms / Tamarina
Handel Variations & 4 Ballads
Brahms / Tamarina
The incomparable, soul-searching playing of the veteran Russian pianist Nelly Akopian-Tamarina is captured in a rare studio recording for PENTATONE with a luminous performance of Brahms's towering Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, Op. 24 and the introspective Four Ballades, Op. 10. In a distinguished tradition of playing stretching back to the great Russian school of Scriabin, Rachmaninov and Medtner through her teacher, the acclaimed virtuoso Alexander Goldenweiser, Nelly Akopian-Tamarina is an exemplar of an exquisitely crafted and poetical style of playing which is subtle, probing, deeply lyrical and utterly spellbinding. Winner of the 1963 Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers and recipient of the coveted Robert Schumann Prize in 1974, her career was nevertheless blocked by official censorship in the Soviet Union during the 1970s such that she made her London debut only in 1983 with a programme of Schumann and Brahms. For this new release, Akopian-Tamarina approaches the programme with her customary sensitivity and poetic insights to give performances of rare subtlety and perfection. "Classically framed romantic miniature fantasies, intricate, entwining studies in embroidery, decoration and voicing", she writes of the Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, "the twenty-five variations navigate the theme to a coronation of fugal triumph, immeasurable and immortal".
NELLY AKOPIAN-TAMARINA
Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 1 |
Composer | Brahms,Johannes |
Released | November 17, 2017 |
EAN/UPC | 0827949067761 |
Label | Pentatone PNTA5186677.2 |
Genre | Classical Piano Music |
Dimensions | 124 × 142 × 10 mm · 112 g |
Soloist | Nelly Akopian-tamarina |
Track list
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- Akopian-tamarina, Nelly - Variationen Und Fuge Ueb
- 1. Aria
- 2. Variation Nr. 1
- 3. Variation Nr. 2
- 4. Variation Nr. 3: Dulce
- 5. Variation Nr. 4: Risoluto
- 6. Variation Nr. 5: Espressivo
- 7. Variation Nr. 6
- 8. Variation Nr. 7: Con Vivacita
- 9. Variation Nr. 8
- 10. Variation Nr. 9: Poco Sostenuto
- 11. Variation Nr. 10: Energico
- 12. Variation Nr. 11: Dolce
- 13. Variation Nr. 12: Soave
- 14. Variation Nr. 13: Largamente, Ma Non Piu
- 15. Variation Nr. 14: Sciolto
- 16. Variation Nr. 15
- 17. Variation Nr. 16
- 18. Variation Nr. 17: Piu Mosso
- 19. Variation Nr. 18: Grazioso
- 20. Variation Nr. 19: Leggiero E Vivace
- 21. Variation Nr. 20
- 22. Variation Nr. 21: Dolce
- 23. Variation Nr. 22
- 24. Variation Nr. 23: Vivace
- 25. Variation Nr. 24
- 26. Variation Nr. 25
- 27. Fuge
- Akopian-tamarina, Nelly - Balladen Op. 10 Nr. 1-4
- Nr. 1 Ballade D-moll (Andante)
- Nr. 2 Ballade D-dur (Andante Espressivo E Dolce)
- Nr. 3 Ballade H-moll (Intermezzo: Allegro)
- Nr. 4 Ballade H-dur (Andante Con Moto Espressivo)
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